The event for Geoff Leidel was called the 'Lumpy's Trifecta' and consisted of 3 laps above One Mile Lake, using the uphill climbing trail that Lumpy built many years ago. It's truly a 'Hellavator' of uphill discomfort, and perhaps says something about Lumpy's personality. "Why build it flat and long when you can build it short and straight up?" Perhaps that was Lumpy's train of thought. The event was organized by Dean Linnell, Russ Wood, and Terry Evans. These locals put this event together with the intention of honouring Lumpy, and bringing riders together to celebrate. The day was overcast and grey, and about 60 of us tackled the course. Kari and I started at the very back and picked our way upwards. Kari, being the soldier from hell he truly is, dropped me like a bad habit. On the second lap a hard compression on the rocky outcroppings of the top of the course shredded a three inch hole in the side of my tire that put me out of the race. Dre did one lap with the race leaders and then called it quits to enjoy the comraderie and swap tales. The course was super cool, especially since I had never ridden on that side of Pemberton before. The terrain was bony as a dinosaur's spine and covered in tons of pine needles. The dirt and rock was very much like what we'd been riding earlier in the day in Whistler, but now that that we had moved Northeast to Pemberton the landscape had gotten drier. Pemberton is a valley in the truest sense, which a huge flat bottom of top shelf farmland shielded by massive mountains, Mt. Currie being the most upfront and obvious. Whistler local Fanny Paquette dominated the women and the Peregrine Falcon, Matt Ryan, absolutely destroyed the men with a fourteen minute lead. They shared the Lumpy trophy, although I think Matt tucked it under his wing and dive bombed back to Whistler.